UNITED KINGDOM
Bexhill-on-Sea Observer

FORMER high-ranking priest and chair of governors at a Bexhill school Gordon Rideout was one of two men arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing young people this week.

The 73-year-old (pictured) was arrested in a dawn raid on Tuesday morning at his home in Filching Close, Polegate, by detectives investigating allegations of sex abuse against young people in Sussex and London in the mid-1960s and early 1970s.

Also arrested on the same morning was former priest at St Philip’s Church in St Philip’s Avenue, Eastbourne, Robert Coles, who was led from his Upperton Road, Eastbourne, flat and taken into police custody to be questioned on suspicion of sexually assaulting young people in the late 1970s and mid-1980s.